DELHI 1 April 2018: A 21-year old man, Ayush Nautiyal, Delhi University student, was found dead in a drain in Dwarka. He had been murdered with a hammer by a 25-year old man he met on a dating app 10 days before the crime took place, police said.
The accused, Ishtiaq Ali, has been arrested and has admitted to murdering the boy after an altercation. The family was enraged by the police inaction initially. The victim’s family has alleged lapses in the investigation and claimed that the police only acted on the complaint they had filed after recovering the body.
The boy went missing since 21st of March, and the accused called his family to demand a Rs5 million ransom. The police is said to have organized 13 teams to crack the case after the FIR was lodged.
Delhi Airport Chaos
The Indira Gandhi International Airport witnessed a mishandling like never before. A few flights got delayed on Thursday due to alleged slow handling of luggage as passengers put power banks and other prohibited items in their checked-in baggage.
Travellers had to stand in long queues and hundreds of bags got misplaced, adding to the chaos. Among those affected included actor Hema Malini and former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The airlines and the Delhi airport officials are looking into the matter.
Polygamy to be Examined
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevalent practices of polygamy and ‘Nikah Halala’ among Muslims and sought responses from the Centre and the Law Commission.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission that the previous five-judge constitution bench, in its 2017 verdict, had kept open the issue of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ while quashing triple talaq.
By a majority of 3:2, a five-judge bench had earlier held triple talaq as unconstitutional in its judgement delivered last year. Now, a fresh five-judge constitution bench would be set up to deal with the constitutionality of ‘nikah halala’ and polygamy.
While polygamy, as we know it, allows a Muslim man to have four wives, the former deals with the process in which a Muslim woman has to marry another person and get divorced from him before being allowed to marry her divorcee husband again.
CBSE Re-exams After Leaks
There was mayhem after the Central Board of Secondary Board of Education (CBSE) announced that it will conduct a re-examination of class X Mathematics and XII Economics paper due to the leaking of papers. The government announced on Friday in the wake of growing outrage over the same as to the Class XII Economics paper to be conducted on 25th April, while the Class X Mathematics paper to be held somewhere in July, but only in Delhi NCR and Haryana.
The Delhi Police Crime Branch has identified over 10 WhatsApp groups, with 50-60 members each for their alleged role in the paper leaks. The police have also sought a reply from Google about an e-mail sent from a Gmail ID to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal with images of handwritten question papers.